Even as a tool, once you carried responsibility, things felt different.
He Donglou was indeed much more cautious today. He had clearly taken Ronan's words to heart and did not dare treat them lightly. After stammering for a moment, he ultimately did not dare ramble based on the scraps of memory in his head and carefully said:
"Then I'll go ask around?"
"Find out clearly. Please."
Ronan's words were polite, yet not entirely polite. He Donglou grew even more nervous and hurriedly hung up, with no telling how he would busy himself afterward.
Ronan let him go deal with it. Zhang Yingying, however, sounded somewhat surprised after waiting for a while. "From the look of him, this doesn't seem like a matter of casually finding a few people in the know and digging up some gossip. The He family has always been tight-lipped about this. They'd let him ask around so freely?"
"It isn't some earth-shattering secret. People who know won't spread it everywhere, while people who don't know won't think in that direction. I was one of those who didn't know."
Ronan laughed at himself. In fact, even now, he still found it somewhat hard to adapt to considering He Yueyin and Xiu Divine Yu together.
Still, he was not especially surprised.
During that time just now, Ronan had sorted through his memories and realized that the connection between the two had already revealed itself in certain details.
Perhaps he had already been somewhat prepared subconsciously?
"You should know something too."
"I've heard a little, but the source has definitely passed through at least three or four hands. Do you want to hear it?"
"Wait for now. I don't want to form a preconceived impression."
"Bullshit, you've definitely taken Secretary He's side. The old He family—"
"I mean Master